putin’s body language, he is quite eloquent, his body language, yes, and putin’s hysteria, it happensy on the faces of those of his supporters who sat in on this security forces, and even here they didn’t even fly by, everyone sat like that, yes, yes, yes, you know, the years of the war, its course, its intermediate results, kyiv was not taken in three days, it must be clearly said that the system itself has changed , after all, she changed, the war changed her, that is, now it is more personified, it is totalitarian, this has finally formed in it , despite the fact that some signs indicate that it is an authoritarian, rigid dictatorial regime, but there are still totalitarian elements, and imagine now... what in putin's environment can it is impossible, inadmissible, to be at least a little bit beyond doubt, it is on the one hand. and then, as we have already seen from the type of such systems, the more rigidly you strengthen the system, as stalin did, for example, then you try to copy any risks associated with the threats caused to your system, i.e. you remove the most loyal, shoot

of course, putin is looking for peace talks.e, he wants this peaceful process and an end to the war, because it gives him relief, but he does not see or consider another way yet, because if he makes any compromise, allowing not... the release of those new subjects of the russian federation , but simply agree with the sovereignty of ukraine, that's it it means that the 80% that is controlled by the central government in ukraine goes to nato, the western integrated community, the eu and everything else, all this is a defeat, he lost ukraine then, you understand, because of course, no one will ever recognize the occupation of new territories, that is, legally he does not solve this issue, and he has nothing to do with them, what do you think mark could do? putin, yes, we understand that there is a public part, there is a non-public part, and there, well, in the public part, everyone starts talking, well, not everyone, but there is yavlinsky, for example, there, let's freeze, let's freeze, we understand that this is a cry to nowhere

putin no longer agrees, that is, what does this indicate?at he doesn't want any peace, he doesn't want any ceasefire, he doesn't want an end to bloodshed. i think that such proposals will be introduced. there already is information that a group of semi-loyal moscow intellectuals is forming. i will not even name them, everyone knows them, who should repent in european capitals and form a non-governmental position of peace. all this is also initiated by the kremlin. are they going to be, relatively speaking, just, you know, a roving marquee, or are they going to represent someone's specific signature there? certainly, because abramovich deals with this, he is assigned to deal with this, he pulls these people in, this is specifically done by abramovich and the persons connected with him, that is, it is a number of harsh officials who in this sense connected, probably surkov has something to do with it, again, they are talking about it, it is similar, because. the issue is possible and profitable for the negotiation process to take place and for

putin ’s body language, it’s quite telling, his body language, yes, and putin’s hysteria, it happens... , who sat in this council, and they didn't even fly by, they are all like that we sat, yes, yes, yes, you know, during these 2 years of the war, its course, its intermediate results, kyiv was not taken in three days, it must be clearly said that the system itself has changed, after all, it has changed, the war changed her, that is, now she is more personified. this finally took shape in her, despite the fact that some signs testify to an authoritarian, rigid dictatorial regime, but there are still totalitarian elements. and to imagine now that putin's entourage could have even a hint of doubt is impossible, unacceptable, it is on the one hand. and then, we have already seen type of such systems, the more rigidly you strengthen the system, as stalin did, for example, then you try to... what if they return to the disloyal, they will start looking for ways to get rid of you, especially since external conditions contribute to this, from putin there is no way out, there is a way out in

vladimir putin and we know what after that? or how much this was really due to domestic russian internal russian forces over which really we didn't have much control and maybe many people in the west didn't fully understand. so i'd like. your thoughts on that. you were there at these during these very important times, including when russia that experienced a near economic collapse in 1998. that's a really good question. i think it i think it's a bit of both. i don't you know, we can't place the blame on the west entirely that there were domestic forces in russia. but i do make the point in the book that i don't think that the west rose to the challenge, the collapse of the soviet union and in the end of the cold war. and it really struck me with hindsight, obviously, as a reporter a young reporter in russia in the 1990s, i traveled and spoke to lots of and did a lot of reporting and spoke to lots of people coal miners who were unpaid textile workers who were also unpaid. i mean, the trauma of that period. with hindsight, i mean

putin has no way out.ay out, they can hide, then pretend that they are not guilty of anything. and to whom will putin shift responsibility from himself, to whom? putin has no way out, the elites have, even some bortnikov is the way out. yes, he may not be hanged, shot, or imprisoned for life. he will show you, you know, a third zimbabwean passport as a proof of residence. by the way, yes, interesting logic. maybe they really have a mossad id card, but putin does not have such an opportunity, even though he had a fan of these passports and id cards, he has no chance, because for putin this is a fundamental, unavoidable, fatal situation, which he must go after , and for the elite this is not a move in the bank, the elite can jump off all this, i am retired, i am in the garden, i i'm sorry, i didn't make the decision about the war, putin will make it. that is why you mentioned the events of february 22, when they at the council of security decided to recognize the republics of the ldpr, and in fact we underst

but who is vladimir putin? vladimir putin is the adolf hitler of our century. the invasion of ukraine is the equivalent to what hitler did, trying to take over a country that's free and doing that and hundreds of thousands people have died in this war. this this is a war. for what purpose? it is for the purpose of vladimir putin. saying going back his i mean, you you what he writes what he says. it's it's really that somehow ukraine doesn't exist. well, of course it. oh, it really be a part of. so i'm going to take it and invade. and there's scenes in the book before the invasion where the intel agents, people in the united states and in the biden white house, they're saying wait a minute. this is crazy. not going to do this. and people going back and forth, rightly so. is this possible? of course he did it. he and he is now put maybe think of all the terror and war in the world. what's going on in the ukraine in vision is so serious. one of the things i did in the reporting is talk to the president. duda and geographically, there's poland and then ukraine and

because trump is in this race to embrace and adore putin. who is putin? vladimir putin, the leader of russia, is the adolf hitler of our century. what putin has launched and sustained is the most brutal war into ukraine, to slaughter and kill hundreds of thousands of people have died. ukraine has held on. the united states, many other democracies have supported that. but why is putin so concerned that he should have ukraine? he has said things. he's written things which make your head spin. ukraine doesn't exist, he says. it's ours. well, it's not. >> let me pull up a quote. i'm talking to my producers in the control room. let's pull up the putin part. we had other parts i was going to read from. go to putin. you say this matters and you've just spent time reporting on what trump did vis-a-vis putin before and during office as well as how the biden administration prepared for that. one thing that already made big headlines, you broke the story that then president trump secretly sent putin his covid tests. americans needed them. the, they grasped how bad t

trump and putin first met in july of 2017. two hours trump and his secretary of state, his foreign minister and a pair of interpreters, after that meeting as first reported by the washington post trump took the interpreter's notes and instructed them not to brief anyone on the meeting. in 2019 the washington post reported there were no detailed records are classified once of trump and putin's first five in person meetings. unheard of. about a year after hamburg summit in helsinki. trump and putin emerged from yet another meeting in which the former president would not allow notes. later at a press conference, donald trump, standing next to vladimir putin divide his own intelligence officials by taking the word of putin russia did not meddle in the 2016 election. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and others they say they think it is russia. i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say this i do not see any reason why it would be. >> he spent several days after that trying to walk that back, unsu

so you do have examples of cronies around, putin scooping up western assets and putin handing them out to some of his inner circle order to keep them onside. but i do that the longer the western companies stayed, the riskier it became for them. they were continuing to pay taxes to the russian government. you know, the kiev school of economics has done some great research on this. i think in 2023 they were paying something like $6 billion in profit taxes to to the russian government. so it's not a good look for a western company that is concerned about their brand and what you was actually oil companies who cut ties more quickly because were seen to be more closely tied to russian government revenues. it was consumer companies that ended up staying arguing that well we're selling pet food or diapers. so that's unconnected to the war. even though they were paying taxes to the russian government and in funding the defense spending. so i many, many have stayed have gotten out. just recently we the case of unilever, a big consumer company, finally deciding get out and finding a russian buye

we have no idea what putin told trump, what trump told putin, what putin promise trump financial incentives, other things things i'll help you get the nominal help you in the campaign if necessary, i might do things to hurt biden if you become the nominee. i mean, anything could have been said and that's why i'm so really obsessed, appalled by this really lulu, i want to give you the final word, this regarding a conversation that you had today, it's 75 minute conversation with jd vance came and spoke to you, you interviewed him for the new york times and i know you're gonna be putting this into a full story, 75 minutes with jd vance what stands out to you 75 minutes with jd vance. >> so first of all, kudos and jd vance for sitting down for 75 minutes with the new york times with me. it was an interesting conversation. it ranged vary widely. it was about his past, but mostly what we focused on is this idea of who is jd vance. we see different jd vance's at different times saying different things. there's a big paper trail. a lot of things at jd vance has said in the past why has he changed h

can you see yourself returning while putin is in power? when putin is in power?ure, not, unfortunately. because i want to live in russia. i was born in moscow, our children were born in moscow. we spent all the... i spent all my life, my family, with alexei, spent all our life in moscow. it's very important for me to come back. of course it's not possible while putin is in power. but i hope one day all this regime will fall and i will come back. putin is capable of anything... and do you see yourself as a politician now in the way that alexei, your husband alexei navalny was? can you, do you want to try and garner the kind of support that he did? yes, i do. er, and there are a lot of people who support me, and i want also to be supportive to them back. there are a lot of... despite a lot of people are in exile. of course, millions of alexei supporters, they are still in russia, they live under huge repressions, oppressions, and it's very important for me to keep a kind of connection with them, because those people didn't afraid to come to the funeral. didn't afra

no, russia's loss is this simply not fulfilling putin's goals.aine, you understand, and what does summer lose from this, the whole environment, it doesn't matter if you are a member of the security council or an ordinary employee of some district administration, well, he doesn't lose anything, he stays there. where he was, he works and does what he used to do, but putin is losing everything, you see, here is mark, the goals of the war and putin’s goals, and i discussed with my american friends the situation with zelensky’s victory plan and so on, well, they assessed it as such , they say, in general, the idea is not bad, the key story is where they will be the elements are not just deterrence of the kremlin, but the interest of the kremlin to enter into... the negotiation process, we understand, so america must hurt putin so much that he would be forced, but, as they say, not a fact, yes, we understand that putin does not managed to achieve those military goals, military-political goals that he set for himself, accordingly, the operational situat

the union with russia, there is no tool for putin.initely a dead end. yes, it could have been a forced entry into kyiv, the landing of a puppet government, and that would have given some chance, and if there was none, they didn't even think that such a thing was possible. here's the thing: they didn't have a backup plan, putin didn't have a backup plan. actually, eliminating all those who started this war with him, and patrushev, and shoigu and so on, this is precisely his attitude. well, gerasimov is holding on, i think, until the new year, he will also be replaced, because... it is expected that this peace will be concluded on his terms. of course, putin is looking for peace talks, of course he wants this peace process and an end to the war, because it gives him relief, but he does not yet see or consider another way, because if he makes any compromise, allowing not to release those new subjects of the russian federation, but simply agrees with the sovereignty of ukraine, then this means that the 80% that are controlled by the centr

vladimir putin. and that admiration that trump has for putin is as inexplicable as ever. it's undimmed by the passing of years. and more explicitly now than ever before, it extends not just to trump personally wanting putin to like him, personally seemingly trump wanting to be like putin, but now, it explicitly seems to extend to trump wanting our country, the united states, to be more like russia is under putin's control. so in this campaign for president, what we hear from trump is that news organizations should not be allowed to air criticism of him or to air interviews with his opponents. he will shut those news organizations down when he is back in power. we hear from him that democratic politicians should not be allowed to run against him, and they're all criminals. we hear from him that portions of the u.s. constitution should be terminated. we hear from him that businesses that don't do what he wants will be crushed when he's back in power. he says let's withdraw from nato, let's let russia do, quote, whatever the hell it wants to our allies. let's use the militar

. >> i talked to vladimir putin a lot. i got along with him well. i know vladimir putin so well. i would like to congratulate vladimir putin for making another great deal. >> to talk to him like that? >> we had a very good relationship. i'm trying to tell people it is a good thing. when you see putin and all these people at the top of their game. i also have a pretty good relationship, as you know, with president putin . if we win, we will get things resolved very quickly. very quickly. i think it is going to be very quick. absolutely. it takes two to tango. >> the shocking, breaking news of the morning is the biggest october surprise of the 21st century. the term october surprise was first used in the presidential campaign to refer to president jimmy carter's failed attempt to rescue american hostages held in iran in october of 1980 , within weeks of the presidential election, which president carter then lost to ronald reagan. the surprise news in october of 1980, that the president had tried to rescue the hostages but failed, was regarded by the news medium as the october surpr

if you look at the way putin's economy works, they are all part of the dna of putin's russia. they all control major sections of the russian economy. with putin putting the russian economy on a war footing, they're all feeding into that economy. i think it soon became clear they were worthy targets of sanctions just on those grounds because if you're going to try to target sanctions to undermine putin's ability to maintain and finance the war, many of figures, these billionaires are worthy of sanctions to try to degrade putin's war machine. >> i think that's a very important point. let me step back for a minute. when cia director bill burns went to moscow in november of 2021 to warn russian officials, and putin, with whom you say he spoke by phone, when he was there that the u.s. knew what russia was doing and to tell them that if they, in fact, did a full-scale invasion, there would be severe sanctions, there was a belief, i think, that this might have deterred putin. but it didn't. if you could talk about putin's own reaction to this and his thinking, if he believed any way

for putin's personal use. tonight, trump is denying that claim to our jonathan karl. >> reporter: as the covid pandemic was raging and the government could not produce enough tests for the american people, then president donald trump secretly sent rare covid test machines to russia, to vladimir putin, for the dictator's personal use. that's according to bob woodward in a soon to be published book called "war." woodward writes that putin told trump to keep it a secret, saying, quote, i don't want you to tell anybody, because people will get mad at you, not me. kamala harris seized on woodward's reporting today, talking about it in an interview with howard stern. >> everybody was scrambling to get these kits, the tests, the covid test kits. >> you couldn't get them. >> couldn't get them. >> right. >> couldn't get them anywhere. >> right. >> and this guy, who is president of the united states is sending them to russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use? this person who wants to be president again, who

he sent testa putin during the 2020 shortage. the post reported as the virus tore through the world and the united states and other countries confronted a shortage designed to detect the illness, donald trump secretly sent tests to vladimir putin for his personal use. and they took pains to prevent fallout. not for him but for his counterpart. he cautioned trump not to reveal that he dispatched the scarce equipment to moscow, according to a new book by bob -- putin told trump i didn't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. i don't want you to tell anybody. donald trump followed vladimir putin's advice and did not tell anyone. that is exactly the kind of thing that doesn't stay secret forever when bob woodward was on the case. the fear was on public display throughout the worst of the pandemic with repeated photographs of vladimir putin sitting at the end of a comically long table. sometimes berating russian generals at the other end of the table for their failures on the war in ukraine. the book is f

account of donald trump's close relationship with vladimir putin, their alleged private phone calls after trump left office, and news that trump secretly sent the russian president covid equipment. cbs's scott macfarlane has the new details. >> reporter: during the early days of the pandemic in 2020, then-president donald trump sent russian president vladimir putin covid-19 test machines, according to the new book "war" by bob woodward, who sat down with "cbs sunday morning." >> these are precious assets to anyone in the world and the country, and he gives it to him for his personal use. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris responded today during an interview with howard stern. >> everybody was scrambling to get these kits, the tests, the covid test kits. >> couldn't get 'em. >> couldn't get 'em. couldn't get 'em anywhere. >> right. >> and this guy, who was president of the united states, is sending them to russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use? >> reporter: even after he left office, trump stayed in touch with the russian leader, according to woodward. he cites an un

one more comment on president putin. using the organisation for his own political needs, because the optics of this like you said are significant. the? you said are significant. they are significant. _ you said are significant. they are significant. it _ you said are significant. they are significant. it is - you said are significant. they are significant. it is part - you said are significant. they are significant. it is part of. are significant. it is part of the narrative directed notjust at the home audience which, let's face it, is largely acquiescent, and those who know the truth are marginalised, imprisoned, exiled or dead as far as activists go, but i think it is also messaging what he calls the global south, that large group of countries that seek not to be aligned with one or other great power block, but in their own way, significant voices and actors across the globe within the united nations, paradoxical, but even as he seeks to court broad form of public opinion by his actions, putin is demonstrating his int

clearly we have a lot of disputes ongoing with vladimir putin, most notably ukraine. if donald trump had a conversation with latimer putin and he was encouraging him to weigh in with the republican party in congress to weigh in against giving aid to ukraine that could be a violation of the foreign agents registration act because he would be lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. i do not know about the content or if the authorities are aware of this and what might be done about it but clearly, donald trump is somebody who is addicted to flattery and vladimir putin is a master manipulator and knows how to flatter donald trump. again, the fact that bob woodward reported this is not surprising it is not confirmed but, it is clear that donald trump has an agenda here as does latimer putin. this is the most important presidential race for vladimir putin because the first u.s. presidential election since the invasion of ukraine. this is really an exercise to challenge two vladimir putin to try to salvage something out of that ruthless and brutal aggression in ukraine.

alyosha is always for putin, for russia, for a great victory. in general, everything follows the krem method, which the collaborators wear in their chests pockets, everything is already written there for them, just repeat on the camera, and you will have rubles dripping and you will sit in a chair. and while ali jumped from one fake chair to another, our law enforcement officers recorded everything. his treasonous actions to serve suspicion for holding a position in the occupation institutions. the khortytsky district court of zaporizhzhia has already sentenced this traitor to 14 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. absenteeism for now. and recently, on september 2, 2024, by presidential decree, alipov was added to the nsdc sanctions list. oleksiy, in a ukrainian prison you will not be offered two small chairs. and here are two chairs, so it is with joy. and it seems to me. you will have to sit on both. it was the program collaborators and i, olena kononenko. if you want to tell us about the kremlin salesmen, write to this e-mail

president of the russian federation, vladimir putin.now prove himself in the civil service, authorized representative of the president. the urals are a large number of defense industry enterprises , concentrated, but not only defense, there are also civilian industries represented quite widely, and if you agree with this, a decree will be signed today on your appointment. i am a soldier, i will work to serve the motherland where i will be needed at the moment. soldiers, heroes are now needed by the motherland in different areas of the common front, one of the most indicative moments that our program witnessed . the president is personally acquainted with many other heroes of the special operation. and so, just as my mother gave all of herself to raise me and my sister as worthy people, here i am standing in front of you and proud to be part of your team, we will not let you down, and how do you see your future? for me the most the main thing is to serve the motherland independently, either it is on the front line to carry out tasks, or

they are trying to read putin because it made no sense to me that putin would try to invade ukraine.tary of state. you hear blinken talking to his counterparts saying how do you control this country that is so vast with 44 million people in it and after you invade ukraine and you can't do it and they never got any kind of rational answer. this is from russia. that is why the french president and other europeans thought they wouldn't do it and putin won't do it because it's a crazy thing to do and that was the thing that was convincing them that putin would do a crazy thing. >> what is so important is putin was absolutely convinced in the quotes and manifesto that he put out that ukraine belongs to russia. wait a minute. we are going to take it. it is rightfully ours. of course, he launched this territorial conquest that we haven't seen since world war ii, quite frankly. and he doesn't back down. he is leading a country that has lost its way. the idea that somehow you think because of history or because, i want this country, you can take it. he has led russia into one of its darkest p

putin, lam not disavowing he called — putin, lam not disavowing he called me _ putin, lam not disavowingd me a genius. _ putin, i am not disavowing he called me a genius.— putin, i am not disavowing he called me a genius. they can be a lot of misinformation - called me a genius. they can be a lot of misinformation in - a lot of misinformation in these campaign ads, they are not necessarily true and there can be a lot of drama and scaremongering as well. who oversee them?— oversee them? correct, they don't necessarily _ oversee them? correct, they don't necessarily have - oversee them? correct, they don't necessarily have to - oversee them? correct, they don't necessarily have to be| don�*t necessarily have to be truthful. in terms of who oversees them, that would be the fcc has some space over what goes over public airways and the fair election commission also has a hand in what is within bounds. that being said, the united states, the first amendment here is quite strong and near absolute in some respects, so particularly with regard to political communications, there is not a whole lot

, what theory do they have now, there is, there is putin, well, putin, well, okay, well, putin is not russia, but there is a great russia with a great history, only that it is a history of bloody bloody slaughter, that it is a history of enslavement, destruction of peoples, the fact that this is the story of the country's fusion on someone else's mountain and, in principle, on everything that is someone else's. on someone else's history, on someone else's artists, on someone else's historians, other people's thinkers, on other people's scientists, no one wants to talk about this, and we as a state, in my opinion, since the very beginning of 1991, we have not built this policy, and we are not building it even now, and i am the last i will say about, actually, why us, maybe you, why me, why... maybe our viewers were so affected by what they are telling us, we will not show this plan in full, and it affected us because we we recall the istanbul, possible istanbul agreements, but no one told us about what was there, what the plans were, but then after six months, a year, two, even today,

now, who is putin? vladimir putin, the leader of russia, is the adolf hitler of our century. what putin has launched and sustained is the most brutal war into ukraine, to slaughter and kill hundreds of thousands of people have died. ukraine has held on. united states, many other democracies have supported that. but why is putin so concerned that he should have ukraine? he has said things, he has written things which make your head spin. ukraine doesn't exist, he says. it is ours. well, it is not. >> let me pull up a quote. i am talking to my producers, let me pull up the putin part. we had other parts i was going to read, but we will go to putin. you say this matters, and you just spent time reporting on both what trump did visit the putin in his time in office, as well as how the biden administration prepared for that. i want to talk about one thing that already made big headlines, which was you reported, you broke the story that then president trump secretly sent putin covid test early in the pandemic when americans need them, and basically the men grasped how bad this woul

it sounds like his friend, vladimir putin, and the way putin operates in russia and what putin did to the tiny fledgling democracy that was starting to sprout in russia. so, trump is also taking putin lessons, as autocrats around the world are. >> the idea of an american led by an admirer of putin who puts the united states not as the leader of the free world but rather into effectively a sort of axis with the dictator of russia and the dictator of china and north korea and -- i mean, to join -- for the united states to be aligned with those countries instead of our traditional alliances, i'm not sure people have absorbed the magnitude of what you're just describing there. maybe we will. former under secretary of state for political affairs, career public servant. it is an honor to speak with you, ambassador. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. 'll be righ. >>> so, we know that a big part of the republican party's plan to make sure donald trump gets another term in the white house, it runs through the court system. with just a wee